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Choose your own adventure

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a...

The rock eaters

First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But...

Pushing it uphill

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially...

Bogans of the sky

Black-backed gulls, their messy city lives, and the people entangled with them....

In Fiji, a wave of meth, HIV and shame

A dispatch from Suva, where cruel epidemics are racing in parallel....

All that you can see is blue

Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a...

“It’s just you and your dog.”

Every year, the finest sheep dogs and handlers in New Zealand and Australia compete for...

Forty names for kākā

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who...

How to dig a better hole

For many Māori, archaeology has a bad name, with treasures removed to museums, stripped of...

Silent Spring

Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What...

The track makers

Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later,...

The Man Who Drew Wellington

In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really...

Dragonlust

Split open a chunk of agate and a broiling world of ancient colour emerges. Collecting...

Hall of mirrors

Every autumn, hundreds of newly fledged Cook’s petrel chicks emerge from their burrows in the...

Chasing ice

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase...

Magic flora

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never...

Rise of the noble false widow

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps....

Making gullies great again

A story that proves we can change the world, one manky strip of city at...

We loved hāpuku too much. Now we have a second chance.

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that...

Our deeply toxic relationship with willows

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark...

The worst job in the world

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned....

Quota or taonga? Or both?

Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are...

For the voyagers

For millions of years, eels moved freely across the waterways of Aotearoa. But now we...

Islands in the stream

Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote island states on the planet. There...

Two days in the forest of nightmares

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape...

The new global superpower? Seaweed.

Solutions to some of our most pressing problems have been waving at us from under...

Citadel of the giants

We thought the giant wētā of the south were doing okay. Now, they are under...

Why we march

Unity. Discipline. Endless bobby pins. A story about what draws women to marching—and why they...

One pig. One night. Fifty-six frogs.

Researchers have long suspected that pigs and other pests were eating our exquisitely rare native...

Tūhoe rising

For 10 years, Tatsiana Chypsanava has been documenting Tūhoe life in Te Urewera, with an...

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